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ID: 48746 Comment by: php dot 10 dot davidsfcd at spamgourmet dot com Reported by: ddkees at illinois dot edu Summary: Unable to browse directories within Junction Points Status: Closed Type: Bug Package: Directory function related Operating System: win32 only - Windows Server 2003 PHP Version: 5.3.0 Assigned To: pajoye Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: I have this issue with PHP 5.3.8, I'm running PHP under FastCGI under its own Security Principal. My PHP codebase uses CakePHP, when I run the project off a local HDD then the application works perfectly, but when I run the project off a directory that is an NTFS Symbolic Link to a UNC share on another server then PHP fails to load files specified by CakePHP. I've gone into the code and I can't see anything that would cause this to fail besides a regressive bug in PHP. I get the same problems with PHP 5.2.17 And with PHP 5.3.0 nothing works at all and PHP refuses to touch anything that goes through an NTFS junction point. Strange. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-07-12 14:22:02] paj...@php.net It is the way it works on all platforms. It was only not support on windows with 5.2. However 5.3 and later support symlinks and junctions. Please read the documentation about symlink support in php and how they work. There is no bug here. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-07-12 14:16:14] M8R-jw2mu7 at mailinator dot com I don't know if at this point I should file a new defect. Let's say we have this structure: H:\www\site1\media\junction ( => I:\resources) Let's say we call page.php in a browser: $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] is 'h:/www/(etc.)' dirname(...) works OK. <?php require_once( dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']). "/../inc/config.php" ); ?> will yield an error: it does not try to load H:\www\site1\media\inc\config.php but I:\inc\config.php (I:\resources/../inc/config.php) Also, a realpath() on the included string returns false. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-07-12 14:05:31] paj...@php.net The results in 5.3 are correct. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-07-12 13:58:09] M8R-jw2mu7 at mailinator dot com pajoye at php dot net: I get your point, but what about the lstat() part ? "Gathers the statistics of the file or symbolic link named by filename." Shouldn't it work for directory symlinks as well? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-07-12 13:52:28] M8R-jw2mu7 at mailinator dot com Replying to myself: I think this is by design. http://php.net/manual/en/language.constants.predefined.php says: __FILE__ The full path and filename of the file. If used inside an include, the name of the included file is returned. Since PHP 4.0.2, __FILE__ always contains an absolute path with symlinks resolved whereas in older versions it contained relative path under some circumstances. Maybe $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] should be used instead? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=48746 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=48746&edit=1
